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The Difference Between Equality and Justice(snowflakearmy.com)
1 points by zorpner 11y ago|0 comments
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by zorpner 11y ago
One my favorite things about the anti-SJW movement is how they fundamentally don't understand what they're opposing. They see people using words like "harassment" and achieving results, so they go full cargo cult and
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by zorpner 11y ago
Downvoted and flagged; read the guidelines. Feel free to downvote and flag me as well.
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by zorpner 11y ago
This is absurdly wrongheaded, and perhaps one of the most misguided things I've ever read on HN. The medium, as the old saying goes and in many cases, is the message, and the way information comes into our brains fundamentally chang
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by zorpner 11y ago
Its people that disagree with the current fad of "politically correctness." Given that the subs which were removed were not removed for offensive speech but rather for encouraging and tolerating criminal harassment off-site, the
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by zorpner 11y ago
There is nothing to be said for it. People in aggregate do not respond to wishes -- they respond to incentives. Wishing that people would behave in a particular way without examining why they aren't is an absurdity, particularly when
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by zorpner 11y ago
The question you have to ask yourself is, what would be necessary to eliminate that potential for consequences? Unfortunately for your argument, the answer is inevitably a hypocritical restriction of speech. You cannot wish for both free s
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by zorpner 11y ago
Must be the dry rot.
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by zorpner 11y ago
Page 5, line 4. I do look forward to you blaming a broken search tool for your failure to bother reading the document before arguing about it, though.
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by zorpner 11y ago
It was pretty inventive to use English-language as a reason to kill the post (it's not actually part of the guidelines, of course, it's just that almost no non-English posts get upvoted to the front page). Clearly, it would have b
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by zorpner 11y ago
Do you have any evidence that the result you found was the result this professor was citing? It's not generally possible to gain an understanding of a field by "[looking] at some of those studies". This is why graduate stude
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Silicon Valley’s 'Startup Castle' is looking for roommates(fusion.net)
23 points by zorpner 11y ago|19 comments
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by zorpner 11y ago
I meant it as a genuine question; it seems like an odd term, compared to for instance "noise ordinance" or similar. Gotcha, I interpreted that as you saying I was using doublespeak, rather than that the term itself was doublespe
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by zorpner 11y ago
"Not neighborly" is not a crime; you can't even sensibly define what it would mean... Yes, the nature of living in a society with humans is that you sometimes have to take situations on a case-by-case basis, and cannot have
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by zorpner 11y ago
This is a naive view of how quiet-enjoyment-type laws are enforced. It can take weeks to months to bring action against neighbors for violating noise ordinances (if they even exist). When I moved into my current SF apartment, I verified wi
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Worker fired for disabling GPS app that tracked her 24 hours a day(arstechnica.com)
15 points by zorpner 11y ago|6 comments
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by zorpner 11y ago
The idea of "choice" is significantly more complex than you present it to be, particularly within the context of people providing for themselves and their families, and the information asymmetry Uber leverages in order to convince
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by zorpner 11y ago
There used to be a ton of 3rd-party solutions for racking Apple products. Marathon Computer made a number of them, including replacement top brackets for a G3-style system: http://www.macobserver.com/news/99/june&
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by zorpner 11y ago
When you have cops on film choking a man to death for selling cigarettes, on film shooting a man in the back then planting evidence on him (and, worse, having his original lie backed up by his fellow officers), and so on, and so on, it&#x27
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The Words the Media Industry Prefers(medium.com)
2 points by zorpner 11y ago|0 comments
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by zorpner 12y ago
> I want to get the author to read this: https://medium.com/@maradydd/when-nerds-collide-31895b01e68c Please no. That article is genuinely terrible -- it's the worst of hacker exceptionalism coupled with an em
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'Roar' Star John Marshall on Making the Most Dangerous Movie of All Time(grantland.com)
2 points by zorpner 12y ago|0 comments
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by zorpner 12y ago
Some opposing viewpoints from the Guardian: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jul/03/is-a-ho...
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by zorpner 12y ago
It also reduces choice. I'd rather have higher pay... This is the part of your comment where you're already choosing not to work for a non-profit. Non-profits are nearly always unable to compete on salary -- they offer increase
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by zorpner 12y ago
Sorry, should have made it more clear that I wasn't talking about Google Code specifically, but was responding to the parent comment regarding "release and pivot".
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by zorpner 12y ago
At least from my perspective, the problem is that Google sometimes releases into already-existing fields at a price point no one can compete with, absorbs the entire market, then pivots away. This is pretty destructive behavior, and I thin
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by zorpner 12y ago
Wanted to chime in and thank you for your posts in this thread -- good, insightful, correct stuff. I'm optimistic -- while there's a lot of noise and badness right now, ten years ago people weren't even talking about these pr
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by zorpner 12y ago
She got a man fired over a private conversation. One of the rules of civilized behavior is that you don't do that. Briefly ignoring both that she did not "get [him] fired" and that your definition of "private conversat
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by zorpner 12y ago
As the subthread below your comment shows, she certainly shouldn't attempt to express her discomfort to anyone, lest they start babbling incoherently about having to look somewhere in "3D Euclidean space" or asserting that th
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by zorpner 12y ago
yet another example of how horribly "male" the entire industry, how hostile it is to females, etc. Yes it is, exactly. And the grandparent comment is yet another example how people will contort any way they can to give men beha

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